A Lighting industry body has set up a system that will allow charities to request free of charge light fittings. The Recolight Reuse Hub is intended to connect donors of unwanted lighting products with potential recipients – including charities. The offers include brand new products, and...
Recolight is pleased to announce the appointment of two new directors to their board. They are Steven Reed, Commercial Manager at Trilux, and Stephen Bell, Services Transformation & Compliance Director UK & IE at Zumtobel. Both have over 20 years of experience in the lighting...
How to sustainably manufacture lighting equipment Organised by the LIA and Recolight 15Hatfields Conference Centre, London Thursday 2 May 2024 The LIA and Recolight are delighted to be collaborating on the Net Zero Lighting Conference 2024, taking place on 2nd May in London. The agenda highlights net zero...
Recolight are delighted to announce that 15 companies joined Recolight in January 2024 , 12 of which transferred from other schemes. And during 2023, a total of 20 other companies joined the Recolight WEEE scheme. Commenting on this record growth, Nigel Harvey, CEO, Recolight said: “The...
The government launched the eagerly anticipated WEEE consultation on 28 December 2023. A range of measures are proposed within the joint UK Government, Scottish Government, Welsh Government and Northern Ireland Executive consultation. Recolight are pleased to see that the initial policy proposals cover what had been expected....
The Recolight Reuse Hub is a new digital marketplace for lighting. An online platform to facilitate the donation of new and used lighting products and equipment. Currently, there are considerable volumes of new and used lighting products that are needlessly recycled when they could be reused....
The reuse of luminaires is being normalised. That was one of the key messages to come from the Circular Lighting Live 2023 conference in London last week. “The reuse of reconditioned light fittings is starting to become mainstream,” said chairman Ray Molony. “Major commercial real estate...
The Environment Agency (EA) this week announced that it would no longer enforce certain documentation when customers drop off trade waste at wholesalers. The change is contained in a new Regulatory Position Statement (RPS) 283 dated 11 September 2023. This states that customers dropping business waste...
The EU Green Deal umbrella, with its 153 legislative acts, has set the pace for a global trend of green regulations that are coming at an unprecedented speed. The lighting industry is facing a complex and broad scope of regulations and standards that will impact...
At a press and stakeholder association event Recolight CEO Nigel Harvey applauded the huge steps taken by the lighting industry in adopting a circular economy. “Over the last three years, we have seen a step change in action on the circular economy in the lighting industry. ...